Georg Kühlewind

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Georg Kühlewind (born March 6, 1924 in Budapest , † January 15, 2006 in Budapest) was a Hungarian chemist , anthroposophical author and meditation teacher .

biography

Kühlewind grew up as György Székely in Budapest in a secular Jewish family . He was interested in music and psychology (especially psychoanalysis ) from an early age . In the anthroposophical scene, he made a name for himself primarily through his self-developed attention training (see below) - which he encountered at the age of 17.

From 1944 onwards he spent more than a year in several German concentration camps, including Buchenwald, after having been forced to work . He was liberated by the Americans in April 1945 in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp .

After the war, Kühlewind became professor for physical chemistry at the Technical University in Budapest . Touched by the anthroposophical views of Rudolf Steiner , he discovered living thinking as the linchpin of this worldview . “The process is crucial and not what is already thought!” Is how he later formulated the then fundamental insight. During this time he published books on questions of knowledge science and meditation . At the age of about 40 he decided to "start all over again" and rebuild his spiritual training path.

From his early retirement in 1979 he worked as a lecturer at the Budapest Seminar for Waldorf Education. He has given countless lectures and courses in almost every country in Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. In particular, he constantly tried to convey his own path of knowledge to others. He stuck to the "crossroads" of linguistics , psychology and epistemology throughout his life .

Attention training

Initially by dealing with psychoanalysis, the problems of the individual as well as of society turned out to be primarily problems of consciousness for Kühlewind . His encounter with the cultural scientist Karl Kerényi - for whom, in Kühlewind's words, "the mythology of the Greeks was a reality like the weather for us" - led him to further research into consciousness and other spiritual phenomena . Above all, the autonomy and the dignity of the human individual had priority for him.

Later, considerations about child development and especially about the phenomenon of so-called ADHD children became the focus of his life. He put his thesis against the common view of evidence-based medicine of ADHD as a disease, according to which many of these children are born with a special mental and emotional disposition, are then not understood by their environment and only develop their symptoms due to the resulting adjustment difficulties . Therapeutically, he therefore relied on an effort to understand and the attentive, loving recognition of the special that these children embody. With the so-called “ star children ” he hopefully felt the lack of alertness and the willingness to realize free and undivided attention .

Works (in chronological order)

With one exception, all of the books listed have been published by Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart.

  • Levels of consciousness. Meditations on the limits of the soul. 1976.
  • Do the truth. Experiences and consequences of intuitive thinking. 1978.
  • Becoming aware of the Logos. The Science of the Evangelist John. 1979.
  • The servants of the Logos. Man as word and conversation. 1981.
  • The life of the soul between the superconscious and the subconscious. Elements of a Spiritual Psychology. (Studies and Experiments 20), 1982.
  • From normal to healthy. Ways to Free the Diseased Consciousness. 1983.
  • The light of the word. World, language, meditation. 1984.
  • The logos structure of the world. Language as a model of reality. 1986.
  • Christmas. The three births of man. 1989.
  • Teaching the senses. Paths to feeling perception. (Studies and Experiments 29), 1990.
  • On dealing with anthroposophy. (Studies and Experiments 30), 1991.
  • The speaking person. An image of man based on the language phenomenon. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
  • The renewal of the Holy Spirit. Grace, Participation, and Spiritual Activity 1992.
  • The kingdom of God. The future vision of the New Testament. 1994.
  • Attention and devotion. The science of the self. 1998.
  • Meditations on Zen Buddhism, Thomas Aquinas and anthroposophy. 1999.
  • The esotericism of knowing and acting. 1999.
  • The gentle will. From what is thought to thinking, from what is felt to feel, from what is wanted to will. 2000.
  • Star children. Children who give us special tasks. 2001.
  • Light and freedom. A guide to meditation. 2004.
  • Healthy in the light. The healings in the Gospels. 2004.
  • Construction. From thinking to perceiving life. 2008.
  • Melody and silence. Art, continuity and the empty consciousness. 2009
  • Light and emptiness. The last notebook and a fragment. 2011.
  • De profundis: letters to friends. 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Cool wind, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Székely, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian chemist, anthroposophist, book author and meditation teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2006
Place of death Budapest , Hungary